The AEP Netilla Security Platform Load Balancer (NSP-LB) is a 1U high, rack mount load-balancing and traffic management appliance, designed to provide scalability and high availability for the AEP Netilla Security Platform (NSP) SSL VPN. The NSP-LB integrates seamlessly into your network infrastructure, bringing reliability, scale, and higher performance to your application access environment

The NSP-LB is available in two hardware platform configurations:
• NSP-LBF (Active/Active Failover): Load balancing and active/active failover for up to two (2) NSP appliances
• NSP- LBC (Active/Active Cluster): Load Balancing, clustering and failover for up to ten (10) NSP appliances

Features

• Robust load balancing & traffic distribution among AEP NSP appliances
• High availability & hardware failover of NSP appliances
• Geographical Load Balancing & Failover across diverse data centers
• Redundancy option for NSP-LBF & NSP-LBC appliances themselves
• Appliance-bsed solution installs quickly and seamlessly
• Seamless portingof licenses from "unhealthy" appliance to "healthy unit(s) in cluster
• Web-based admnistration console
• Proactive health monitoring with customizable thresholds
• Support ALL NSP application
• Activity monitoring & historical reporting via web-based console & SNMP

Benefits

• Grater scale & performance:  Extend you application infrastructure to thousands of users while maintaining application performance
• Ensures continuity of opperations; helps meet disaster planning initiatives
• Load sharing and/or failover between NSP clusters for ongoing operations & disaster recovery requirements
• Total confidence in your load balancing availability
• Non impact on existing network infrastructure
• Continuity of operations, even during potential hardware failure
• Quick setup & configuration delivers ease of deployment & management
• Configurable health monitoring based on CPU, memory load, license usage & performance
• Complete solutions for your NSP environment (Thin proxy, web proxy, Port Forwarding & Tunneling)
• Plan for future capacity requirements & isolate potential faults